RS:X Youth World Windsurfing Championship – Day 1

by worldofwindsurf on 22 Nov 2016 The Opening series started today with nice planing conditions for the men and the women fleets. A quite morning shifted in to a back to back racing day with sunny skies, choppy waters and winds from 15 up to 18 knots. Three Races were completed for the men and women divisions with some intense action for some of the youth competitors.

The men division is split into a Yellow fleet and a Blue fleet in the Qualifying series, except the women who do compete in a single fleet.

The leaders in the Youth men fleet are Yoav Omer from Israel - the defending Champion -who is in great shape, with a confident attitude and charisma and Mack van den Eerenbeemt from the Caribbean island of Aruba with a stable performance. Both competitors won the three races in their fleets just in front of the Limassol Nautical Club.

The first race of the women fleet was an exciting one, as Noy Drihan from Israel – also the defending Champion- blasted away from the pack at ease, but unfortunately a little mistake made, caused for her to slip to second place and making room for Maria-Belen Bazo from Peru to take the lead and also winning the first race. The following two races were dominated by Noy Drihan who quickly learned from her earlier mistake and is one to keep an eye on in the next racing days.

Youth Men top five:
1. Yoav Omer | ISR 24
1. Mack van den Eerenbeemt | ARU 11
3. Tom Reuveny | ISR 60
4. Camille Bouyer | FRA 2
5. Sil Hoekstra | NED 25

Youth Women top five:
1. Noy Drihan | ISR 20
2. Maya Morris | ISR 7
3. Katy Spychakov | ISR 32
4. Emma Wilson | GBR 7
5. Mariam Sekhposyan | RUS 13

A successful first competition day at the 2016 RS:X Youth World Windsurfing Championship in Limassol, Cyprus. Tomorrow should be another great racing day as the forecast predicts a bit stronger winds then today.